CoL offers new awards and helps set up online legal dictionary
updated on 07 December 2012
The College of Law (CoL) has announced 100 new awards of up to £3,000 toward course fees for students with top academic credentials. The scheme is open to CoL students taking the two-year LLB, the GDL, the LLM LPC or the BPTC, and will run from September 2013 at all eight of the CoL's centres around the United Kingdom. The awards will also run in addition to the CoL's 2013-14 scholarship programme.
There are 30 £1,500 LLB Star awards open to applicants with a minimum of 360 UCAS points or the equivalent. The 35 £3,000 GDL Gold awards are open to graduates with first-class honours in any subject or a distinction at master's level. The same is the case for applicants to the 24 £3,000 LLM LPC Lunar awards, with the additional option of a pass with distinction on the GDL. The criterion for the 13 £3,000 BPTC Platinum awards is identical to that of the LLM LPC award. For more details, see the CoL's scholarships page.
Sarah Hutchinson, the CoL's board member for business development, said: "These prestigious awards have been created in order to attract the most academically gifted students to the legal profession by giving them a helping hand with their fees."
In other news, the CoL has teamed up with legal charity Advocates for International Development (A4ID) to launch a plain English legal dictionary, accessible through A4ID’s online resource centre. Students at the CoL's Moorgate centre compiled the dictionary, which was then checked by CoL tutors. The tool is designed to make legal information accessible to non-lawyers and people for whom English is not their first language.
Chara de Lacey, A4ID’s head of learning, said: “Many of those using the resource centre have no legal training and yet recognise that legal frameworks underpin the achievement of international development goals. The legal dictionary produced by students at The College of Law Moorgate is a great addition and will ensure that those using our resources can understand their full content, including all legal references.”
